Mikey's Birthday

As most of you know, this past Sunday was my Birthday and as you can imagine Friends and Family sent their twisted, humorous and warm greetings. My lovely wife was so enthralled in the event that she decided to give me two cards. Since she wasn't here to enjoy most of them and some of you weren't here to enjoy as well, I decided to post some of them here for you all to partake.

And let's not forget the gift that keeps popping up! The birthday gal in this video was a gift that I gave to Steve McPeek for his 60th Birthday. Be careful what you give, it may come back to haunt you. This gift has now been passed on to Michael Whiting, no telling who he may pass it along to ;-) In any case for your enjoyment, here is a video of the gift.

BTW, Muriel I received several bottles of pepper sauce and some great Alaskan and Pagosa Beer to wash it down with. Which hot sauce would you like me to bring, Fire in The Hole, Butt Burner or Texas Tongue Torch?

Charity Fashion Show

Last Saturday Muriel and Mike volunteered for the 12th Annual Festival of Fashions. All funds raised from the event was donated to help outfit the new Parish Hall. Mikey was Santa Claus for the event and did all the sound/music. Muriel was one of the friendly wait staff. We enjoyed the event and had a blast doing it!

Santa with the MC Mary McKeehan

Santa with Dee McPeek (left) who organized the event and Maria MacNamee (right), owner of Happy Trails Ladies Boutique sponsor of the event

The Lovely Wait Staff! All Volunteers

Santa and the winner of the $1,500 shopping spree at Happy Trails Ladies Boutique

Check out the above video of Mary's description of putting on her new Spanx!

Here is a video of Santa helping out one of the models

Getting Ready for Halloween

Muriel and the twins feeding the turkeys... Giant spider attacking the twins...

Cool birthday gift from Karen West! Half inside and half outside. Creepy!

The other cool birthday gift from Karen. This one has a remote control and we had the twins screaming when it was coming toward them. They were still suspicious even though we told them we'd turn it off for the picture ;-)

Beautiful birthday flowers from Tony, Tiffany and families. Hope they last for our Halloween party!

Alaska Trip Part 3

Here is the final posting on our trip to Alaska. These set of pictures are from our port stop in Ketchikan. We decided to get away from the crowds and hike 3 miles to the totem pole park.

Someone's house on the walk to the park

Nice parking pad!

Alaska Trip Part 2

Here are some more pictures from our Alaska trip. The first shot is from the train on the trip (9 hour ride) from Denali to Whittaker to catch the ship.

First couple hours on the ship

Muriel on the balcony of our room

Hiking in Skagway

Bike ride in Junuea

Here is another short video showing the glaciers and an eagle

First post of our Alaska trip

Sorry it took so long to get something out here, but have not had any connectivity or free time until now.

The trip started off a little rocky. Muriel had a bladder infection the night before we were to catch our flight. She wasn’t sure if she would make it, but was going to try and catch up once she spoke to the doctor. Mike went ahead and caught the 6:15 am flight and Muriel was able to get hold of the doctor and found out some medicine she had from a couple years ago was still good and started to take it. She caught a later flight and was able to meet Mike, Mac and Maria in the Denver airport where they all caught the flight to Seattle where they met up with the Jordans.
Our land portion of the vacation is coming to an end and below are some pictures and a short video to share with you. Enjoy!

Eating Healthy

Here is a short video of some of the highlights from the land portion of the trip